Sale or account book.



No. 664,828. Patented Jan. I, 190i.

W. S. BANNER.

SALE OR ACCOUNT BOOK.

(Application filed Mar. 24, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WINFIELD S. BANNER, OF UNIONVILLE, MISSOURI.

SALE OR ACCOUNT BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 664,828, dated January1, 1901.

I Application filed March 24, 1900. Serial No. 10,034. (No model.)

To a whont it ntay concern:

Be it known that I, WINFIELD S. BANNER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Unionville, in the county of Putnam and State of Missouri,have invented a new and useful Sale or Account Book, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to account-books, and has for its object to producea book of this class by means of which the leaves may be increased ordecreased at will and the accounts secured to the different leaves,whereby any account in the book may be readily found and the necessityfor posting the accounts from one book to another is avoided.

With this object in view my invention consists in the improvedconstruction and novel arrangement of parts of a book, as will behereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, in which the same reference-numeralsindicate corresponding parts in each of the views in which they occur,Figure l is a perspective view of a book closed made in accordance withmy invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same open. Fig. 3 is atransverse sectional view of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectionalview of the book. Fig. 5 is a detail view of one of the leaves of myimproved book; and Fig. 6 is an enlarged sectional detail view of aportion of the back, the leaves being omitted to avoid confusion.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 indicates one of thebook-covers of my improved book, and 2 indicates the other one. The rearcover 1 has a binding-flap 3 permanently secured to it at one edge, andthe opposite edge of the flap is arranged to fold over the rear edge ofthe front cover and be movably connected therewith by meansof elasticstrips or connectors 4, which when secured to the interior pass throughsuitable perforations 5 in the cover and are secured near the forwardedges of the cover upon the inside. The inner face of the binding-flap 3is provided with a pocket-like lining 6, which is secured thereto at itsedges and is provided at suitable distances apart with transverse slitsor openings 7. Each of the leaves 8 of the book and also the front cover2 is provided with a series of loops 9, projecting from their rear edgesin position to pass through the slits or openings in the lining 6.Suitable attaching devices-as, for instance, cords or wires 10are passedlongitudinally through the loops to the rear of the lining after theleaves have been placed in position, thereby preventing the removal ofthe leaves except upon the withdrawal of the fasteners 10. The samestyle of fastener may be utilized for com necting the strips orconnectors 4 with the lining, as all that will be necessary is toprovide either end of each of the connectors with a suitable loopl5,which may be passed through the opening in the lining and securedtherein by inserting a wire through the loops of all the connectors inthe same manner that is done for each of the leaves. of the insertionand removal of these fasteners one end of the lining, preferably theupper end, may be temporarily closed or permanently left open.

If desired, a suitable extensible hasp or clamp i1 is secured to one ofthe covers in position to have its opposite end engage with the othercover and hold the book closed.

For convenient access to the accounts within the book I prefer to formthe leaves of the index narrower than the account-leaves, so that theletters of the alphabet 12 may be exposed upon the outer edges of theindex portion in the usual manner, and the numbering of the pages of theleaves 13 will project beyond the edges of the index in position to beseen at all times. Although the accounts may be arranged upon thedifierent leaves in any suitable manner, temporarily or permanently, Iprefer to provide each of the leaves with suitable retainingmechanism-as, for instance, flexible elastic bands 14upon one or bothsides of the leaves, under which the accounts of the different personsmay be tornporarily secured.

As above described, it is evident that a great many accounts can beconveniently kept or stored in my book in such a manner that access canbe had to any particular account with quickness and despatch. Forinstance, when it is desired to find any particular account the indexis'opened at the page on which his name has been properly indexed in anysuitable manner and in which the number of the page and, if desired, thecolumn on that page on which the account will be Forthe purpose in thismanner the entries for each account.

may be made upon the account itself, and thereby the necessity oftransferring the accounts to a separate book is avoided, therebysimplifying the necessary bookkeeping to the greatest extent.

tain it in the book, it can be removed from its fastening and anotheraccount put in its place, the index being suitably changed to correspondwith the change in the accounts. With the increase or decrease of thenumber of accounts to be kept in the book the number of account-leavescan be varied to suit conditions by simply withdrawing the wires of anyof the leaves that are to be removed or by inserting new leaves andintroducing other wires behind the lining when the inside of the book isto be increased. As the binding of the book is made flexible and thestrips by means of which it is connected with the front cover are ofsufficient strength to always keep thebinding drawn taut and smooth,

, the book will always present a neat and tidy may be provided with theloops 9 andbe se cured to the lining in the same manner as the leaves,thereby producing a very convenient scrap-book.

It is evident that other changes and modifications may be made withoutdeparting from If at any time any account is closed and it is notdesired to further rethe spirit of my invention, andl reserve the rig-htto make all such changes and variations in the form and construction ofmy improved; book as will come within the scope of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

;1 In an account-book, the combination,

with two covers, one of which is provided with r a binding-flappermanently secured thereto atone edgeand the otherone isprovided with 7secured to the flap and provided with tranS- verseopenings, a series ofleaves between-the covers, each of said leaves and the perforated coverbeing providedwi-th a series of loops.

upon its rear edge in position to pass through the openings in thelining, a fastener through each series of loops to the rear of thelining, yielding strips secured to the inside of the perforated covernear its front edge, the free end of each of which is provided with aloop and is passed through oneof the .openings'in the cover into thecorresponding opening in the lining, a fastener through said loops, andan extensible h-asp at the free edgesof said covers.

WINFIELD s. BANNER.

Witnesses:

O. A-L-EX ELSON, J. D. NORVAL.

